“What you know about rolling down in the deep? When your brain goes numb, you can call that mental freeze When these people talk too much, put that shit in slow motion, yeah I feel like an astronaut in the ocean, ay”

 The song begins with a rhetorical question asking the listener what they know about rolling down in the deep. This is done in order to put the listener in the shoes of the writer, not allowing them to criticize Masked Wolf without actually understanding what he is going through. The allegorical depth being talked about here is about, perhaps a mental state, of being unwell, and the act of rolling symbolizes a familiarity to this condition by the writer. Masked Wolf is not sinking down to the deep, neither is he surprised by the fact that he is in the deep. He is simply rolling, meaning he, even though he might not enjoy it, is basking in the glory of the deep. He rolls in the deep, rejecting to reject the undesirable state that he is in. This state of not being well, or not being in the place that he wants to be, might put one in what Masked Wolf calls a numbness of the brain. Masked Wolf, furthering literature, informs the listener that they might also call this a “mental freeze”. Giving the listener options as to what they might call this strange phenomena. This is EXPERTLY placed, as if your brain is slowed down (as is the case when one is rolling down in the deep) you might have problems understanding things. So he states this fact two times, in order to assure the listeners understanding of the situation. As he experiences this mental retardation, he puts people in “slow motion” as to level his understanding of the inputs given to him by the people with the inputs themselves. Masked Wolf has the power to do this ,this is important, to put people in slow motion and I will get to that later. This is obviously due to the fact that he is in a state of “mental freeze”, he needs to slow people down so he might understand them.